It is not criticism, but flattery that she wants; and I gush over them with what I feel to myself to be degrading effusiveness.
她想要的不是批评,而是奉承;于是我热情洋溢地大加赞美,连自己都觉得有失体面。
— Jerome K. Jerome · The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow · On Vanity and Vanities —